TABLE 4.

Average marginal effects from ordinal logistic regression analysis between selected characteristics and belief that providers should be allowed to refuse to perform abortions

Characteristic	Strongly agree	Agree	Neutral	Disagree	Strongly disagree
Medical school
University of Cape Town	0.16**	−0.09**	−0.03**	−0.02**	−0.02**
Walter Sisulu University (ref)	na	na	na	na	na
Gender
Female	0.01	−0.01	0.00	0.00	0.00
Male (ref)	na	na	na	na	na
Year in medical school
1st/2nd (ref)	na	na	na	na	na
3rd/4th	−0.03	0.02	0.01	0.00	0.00
5th/6th	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00
Race/ethnicity
White	0.13**	−0.07	−0.03**	−0.02**	−0.02**
African/black (ref)	na	na	na	na	na
Coloured	0.15**	−0.08	−0.03*	−0.02*	−0.02**
Indian	0.09	−0.05	−0.02	−0.01	−0.01
Other	0.03	−0.02	−0.01	0.00	0.00
Religion
Catholic	−0.04	0.02	0.01	0.01	0.01
Non-Catholic Christian (ref)	na	na	na	na	na
Muslim	−0.04	0.02	0.01	0.01	0.01
Hindu	−0.13†	0.07	0.03	0.02	0.02
Jewish	−0.29**	0.16**	0.06**	0.04**	0.03**
Other	0.03	−0.02	−0.01	0.00	0.00
Atheist/agnostic	−0.12†	0.07†	0.03†	0.02†	0.01†
Religious service attendance	0.10**	−0.05**	−0.02**	−0.01**	−0.01**
Relationship status
Single, never in relationship (ref)‡	na	na	na	na	na
Single, no current relationship	0.01	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00
Single, in relationship	0.03	0.02	0.01	0.00	0.00
Ever had intercourse
Yes	0.03	−0.02	−0.01	0.00	0.00
No (ref)	na	na	na	na	na

^*p≤.05.

^**p≤.01.

^†p≤.10.

^‡Includes 11 “other” cases.

Notes: N=1,184. ref=reference group. na=not applicable.